Mercedes-Benz electrical cars: more details of four models for two thousand twenty emerge

Grille – two thousand thirteen Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT 2-door Coupe SLS AMG GT

All three German luxury car makers now have plans to launch battery-electric vehicles before two thousand twenty to counter the unlikely success of California’s Tesla Motors.

Whether their electrical cars are sedans, SUVs, or both, they will likely be sized and priced to rival with the Tesla Model S and Model X now in production.

Now that Germany has enacted domestic electric-car sales incentives, it emerges that one maker has accelerated its plans.

Mercedes-Benz is now planning to add no fewer than four separate all-electric models to its lineup by the two thousand twenty one model year, according to Britain’s Autocar magazine.

Two electrical sedan models will be sized toughly the same as the mid-size C-Class and large S-Class gasoline and diesel models, the report says.

A pair of accompanying electrified crossover SUVs, meantime, will compare to the GLA compact hatchback and GLC mid-size crossover utility vehicles.

2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class – Very first Drive, July 2015

The quicker development was shoved by outgoing R&D chief Thomas Weber, according to the report.

Still, “a strenuous shroud of secrecy surrounds the upcoming electric-powered Mercedes models,” it says.

Adapting existing platforms is the more conservative treatment toward suggesting electrified cars, compared to development of a dedicated battery-electric architecture (as Tesla has done).

According to the Autocar chunk, Mercedes feels that volume of 50,000 units a year or more would be required to justify the cost of a dedicated model.

Indeed, a Mercedes executive told Green Car Reports last fall that the company is entirely capable of building fully competitive electrified cars, but would do so only when the business made sense.

The very first electrified vehicle to emerge from Mercedes is likely to be a version of its GLC crossover, under the model name ‘ELC,’ previously expected at the end of 2018.

2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class – Very first Drive, July 2015

Such a Mercedes-Benz ELC electrified SUV would share just its roof and windows with the existing GLC, which launched for two thousand sixteen and substituted the previous GLK.

The rest of the ELC’s figure will be powerfully modified, to reduce aerodynamic haul to an absolute minimum for longer range.

According to the German magazine Autobild, it will have a vapid battery pack under the floor, at least two motors (one per axle), and up to four hundred kilowatts (540 horsepower) of output.

Mercedes is developing its own electrical motors in house, Autocar suggests, telling they’ll range from seventy five to four hundred kw of output.

It also plans to suggest both plug-in and inductive charging on its all-electric vehicles, according to Autobild.

Except for the smallest GLA-based electrified model, the battery-electric vehicles will all use underpinnings known to insiders as the MEA (Modular Electrical Architecture).

Mercedes B Class Fuel Cell Hybrid

It’s a derivative of the fresh MRA (Modular Rear Architecture) platform that is used for the current C-Class, brand-new E-Class, and the S-Class launched in 2013.

Before the battery-electric models arrive, however, a GLC Fuel Cell will actually be the very first vehicle to use the adapted platform.

Weber has described the hydrogen-powered vehicle as a forerunner to the range of electrical models that will go after.

Mercedes-Benz electrified cars: more details of four models for two thousand twenty emerge

Mercedes-Benz electrified cars: more details of four models for two thousand twenty emerge

Grille – two thousand thirteen Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT 2-door Coupe SLS AMG GT

All three German luxury car makers now have plans to launch battery-electric vehicles before two thousand twenty to counter the unlikely success of California’s Tesla Motors.

Whether their electrical cars are sedans, SUVs, or both, they will likely be sized and priced to rival with the Tesla Model S and Model X now in production.

Now that Germany has enacted domestic electric-car sales incentives, it shows up that one maker has accelerated its plans.

Mercedes-Benz is now planning to add no fewer than four separate all-electric models to its lineup by the two thousand twenty one model year, according to Britain’s Autocar magazine.

Two electrical sedan models will be sized toughly the same as the mid-size C-Class and large S-Class gasoline and diesel models, the report says.

A pair of accompanying electrical crossover SUVs, meantime, will compare to the GLA compact hatchback and GLC mid-size crossover utility vehicles.

2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class – Very first Drive, July 2015

The quicker development was shoved by outgoing R&D chief Thomas Weber, according to the report.

Still, “a strenuous shroud of secrecy surrounds the upcoming electric-powered Mercedes models,” it says.

Adapting existing platforms is the more conservative treatment toward suggesting electrified cars, compared to development of a dedicated battery-electric architecture (as Tesla has done).

According to the Autocar chunk, Mercedes feels that volume of 50,000 units a year or more would be required to justify the cost of a dedicated model.

Indeed, a Mercedes executive told Green Car Reports last fall that the company is entirely capable of building fully competitive electrified cars, but would do so only when the business made sense.

The very first electrified vehicle to emerge from Mercedes is likely to be a version of its GLC crossover, under the model name ‘ELC,’ previously expected at the end of 2018.

2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class – Very first Drive, July 2015

Such a Mercedes-Benz ELC electrified SUV would share just its roof and windows with the existing GLC, which launched for two thousand sixteen and substituted the previous GLK.

The rest of the ELC’s assets will be intensely modified, to reduce aerodynamic haul to an absolute minimum for longer range.

According to the German magazine Autobild, it will have a vapid battery pack under the floor, at least two motors (one per axle), and up to four hundred kilowatts (540 horsepower) of output.

Mercedes is developing its own electrical motors in house, Autocar suggests, telling they’ll range from seventy five to four hundred kw of output.

It also plans to suggest both plug-in and inductive charging on its all-electric vehicles, according to Autobild.

Except for the smallest GLA-based electrical model, the battery-electric vehicles will all use underpinnings known to insiders as the MEA (Modular Electrified Architecture).

Mercedes B Class Fuel Cell Hybrid

It’s a derivative of the fresh MRA (Modular Rear Architecture) platform that is used for the current C-Class, brand-new E-Class, and the S-Class launched in 2013.

Before the battery-electric models arrive, however, a GLC Fuel Cell will actually be the very first vehicle to use the adapted platform.

Weber has described the hydrogen-powered vehicle as a forerunner to the range of electrified models that will go after.

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